Peace Amid Outer Conflict

Neville's Inner Vision

Within you, the psalmist encounters a state that hates peace—the inner pole opposite peace. The phrase I am for peace is not a political statement, but a claim of the I AM, the unassailable awareness. If your imagination takes up the haters of peace as outer others, you are still living under the old assumptions that peace is fragile and needs defense. Neville’s law says consciousness precedes circumstance; the moment you dwell in the idea that you are peace, your words become the signal, and the entire atmosphere replies. When you speak from a mind in conflict, you awaken war in your surroundings; when you revise, you speak from the quiet conviction that peace is your natural state. Practice: assume you are the peace-bearing I AM and that others respond with peace; feel the words you speak as seeds of harmony; the outer scene will follow. The psalmist’s tension becomes a map to move from outward rumor of war to inward stillness, the true dwelling place of peace.